News
Aug 01, 2011
New Faculty Spotlight: Andrew T. Myers
Andrew T. Myers joined the department in August 2011 as an Assistant Professor. Prof. Myers' research interests are centered on a combination of multi-scale experimental testing, computational simulation, and probabilistic […]
Aug 01, 2011
New Faculty Spotlight: Auroop R. Ganguly
Auroop R. Ganguly joined the Department as an Associate Professor after seven years at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, most recently as a Senior R&D Staff in their Computational Sciences […]
Aug 01, 2011
New Faculty Spotlight: Ralf Birken
Ralf Birken was appointed Research Assistant Professor after serving as a Senior Research Scientist and collaborating with Profs. Ming Wang and Sara Wadia-Fascetti on the VOTERS Center. Dr. Birken has […]
Jul 25, 2011
Monitoring Aquatic Ecosystems
Civil and Environmental Engineering Associate Professor Ferdi Hellweger was awarded a $61K NSF grant to determine what environmental impacts affect the life cycle of phytoplankton.
Jul 25, 2011
Sipahi Awarded DARPA Grant
MIE Assistant Professor Rifat Sipahi received a $300K DARPA grant for his research “Model-Free Algorithms to Assist and Control Human-Task Missions against Dynamic Environments.”
Jul 20, 2011
$2.5M Gift for Endowed Faculty Chair
Entrepreneur Arthur Zafiropoulo has donated $2.5M to establish a new College of Engineering endowed faculty chair, one of the highest recognitions that a faculty member can receive.
Jul 20, 2011
Kirda Receives NSF Grant
ECE and CCS Associate Professor Engin Kirda was awarded a $486K NSF grant to develop tools to automatically detect when a malicious bot is trying to connect to a computer host.
Jul 18, 2011
Isaacs & Busnaina Awarded $1.2M Grant
MIE Professors Jackie Isaacs and Ahmed Busnaina have received an $1.2M NSF grant to use LCA methods to determine the ethical, legal, and societal impacts of scaling nanomanufacturing to commercial production.